Gagging from brushing teeth/taking pills still

I’m at 15 weeks, didn’t really have issues with morning sickness too badly, but I continue to have issues with feeling like I’m going to throw up (or in rare cases actually throwing up) when I brush my teeth and take my vitamins. Has anyone else experienced this or is anyone still experiencing this into their second trimester? Any tips or tricks? I feel like it throws off my ability to eat in the morning so much.

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I had this problem until very recently. I use mouthwash before brushing now. It helps me from feeling like I need to scrub my tongue with my toothbrush haha. I just get my teeth with the brush. And then in the afternoon/evening I can brush everything with no issue... just something about the morning! As far as pills, I take them before bed when my stomach is typically fine. I do keep a bucket near the bed though!

Yeah I'm almost 18 weeks and brushing my teeth still makes me gag. It's better if a go slowly or brush in spurts. At least I'm not throwing up anymore? Since I'm probably not being as thorough, I floss and use mouthwash everyday which doesn't cause the same problems for me.

Yes- this happend to me almost every time I brushed my teeth up until about 2 weeks ago. Pretty terrible! I have a weird thing with mint making me neuseated too so I found not so minty toothpastes to help with that issue. I would also dry heave when I took showers. I think the steam would loosen up any mucous and then I’d start heaving- sometimes throwing up. Just part of pregnancy I guess.

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